[Quix]

The Pharisees were utterly 100% convinced that they walked 100% in

THE AUTHORITY OF GOD ALMIGHTY.

Yet Christ—God Himself—called them sons of the devil.

When Holy Spirit lifts an anointing off an individual or a group—regardless of their positions, heritage, rank, prior anointings, . . .

THEN, WITH THE ANOINTING LIFTED, THE AUTHORITY IS ALSO AT LEAST PARTIALLY LIFTED, LESSENED, GONE.

Authority is not identical to anointing but there is a very close relationship between them—particularly in this Church Universal era.

[adiaireton8]

So Quix, how do you distinguish the sitution where the "authority has been lifted" from the situation where "you have fallen into heresy"?

As you may know, most all the heretics of the first four centuries claimed that the authority has been lifted from the Catholic bishops. How could they have known that it was not the case that the authority had been lifted, but rather that the authority remained in place and they themselves (by being in substantial disagreement with the authority) had fallen into heresy? What makes you think you are so much smarter and "in tune with the Spirit" than all the heretics of the first four centuries?

-A8